More Followup on Sharing Data With WatchKit Extensions
Reader Erich Graham emailed me some more followup on a recent series of posts I wrote about WatchKit extensions. Great to hear. I look forward to rethinking these problems. http://bit.ly/18GMPMz

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Marketing Costs and Overcast’s Sales Numbers
Marco Arment has published profit and loss numbers for his podcast app Overcast: I’m happy that Overcast has been so successful. It was a feature-rich 1.0. His success is deserved. http://bit.ly/1IHNSZX

Taking the Time to Thank Your Mentors
In the latest issue of Objc.io, Andy Matuschak (a former lead UIKit engineer at Apple, now elsewhere) writes about his experience at Apple: But this industry has been around for a while. So to: http://bit.ly/1DGF5aB

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Anthony Bourdain on Showing Up on Time
This, seven ways from Sunday, emphatically this: Q: What’s the best advice you ever received from anyone? Who gave it? And when? A: Show up on time. The second time you were fired. Always be on … http://bit.ly/1430Y4i

Steven Sinofsky on Why Remote Engineering is So Difficult
I have spent a lot of time trying to manage work so it is successful outside of a single location. In this case little knowledge is required that span the seam between compone… http://bit.ly/1y69oWa

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All These App Rejection Stories in One Headline “No One Dares to Build WatchKit Apps that Matter”
In a tweet so ludicrous it bears quoting in full, Greg Pierce announces that Apple has yet again rejected the Drafts.app Today Widget: … http://bit.ly/1BxqzB3

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Follow-up on Sharing Data with WatchKit Extensions
Recently I posted about a potential problem when sharing a Core Data SQLite-backed persistent store between a host app and one or more iOS extensions. He’s written about this approac… http://bit.ly/1wbTRDG

How I Learned that Video Games are For Old Ladies, Too
One weekend in the late ‘80s an old friend of my parents came to visit. I’d never heard my mom or dad mention her before, nor have I heard much about her since. She had short sil… http://bit.ly/1wQA3QC

Unread by the Numbers
We’re in the midst of an enormous refactor at Bloglovin. Here’s Unread by the numbers, counting lines of code just in .m files. People might be most surprised by that Overshare Kit count. http://bit.ly/1wRIbCf

Bloglovin 3.0.3 Available Now
A new version of Bloglovin is available on the App Store now. This is the first new version since I joined the iOS team there this summer. Looking forward to many more releases. http://bit.ly/1ETlvXM

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Beyond Objective-C, Beyond Swift
I had been writing software for less than a year when Apple introduced Automated Reference Counting (ARC) in iOS 4. I’ll never forget the figure that accompanied the transition guide documentation: http://bit.ly/1BchUzp

The iPhone 6 Plus Makes Designing Apps for Physical Comfort More Difficult — and More Important — Than Ever
Several months ago I wrote a post about the ingredients that make an app feel comfortable. Much of this post is more applicab… http://bit.ly/1rmFXdK

Iterate 74: Designing for iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, with Kawano, Sinclair, and Wiskus
I was a guest on last week’s episode of the Iterate podcast. There was so much to talk about after Apple’s announcements. My biggest concern: My bi… http://bit.ly/1DlBYDd